Disclaimer: I own neither Digimon nor RWBY
A dance could be many things. A time for friends and acquaintances to have fun, relax and strengthen their bonds, or perhaps for new meetings.
For most of team ROAL, it was a nuisance.
And yet, there they were, stuck in a hall full of teenagers and music. All because their leader insisted they attend.
So they found themselves scattered around, Omegos and Albion awkwardly observing from the side-lines while trying to figure out how this actually worked, while Lavender somehow already knew, and had happily entered the dance floor alongside some charming young lady.
Of course, their leader was nowhere to be seen, having disappeared into the crowd.
Omegos sighed. "So, why are we here again?" He asked.
The two of them were garbed much like all the other boys in attendance. Lavender had instead chosen to wear a pink suit, with some gold. At least he was easy to spot.
"To relax and have fun, if my memory serves." Albion replied lightly while scanning the floor. "Not to mention it would be odd not to attend."
"Of course. And where is our mighty and gracious leader who suggested this?" The unamused warrior asked unhappily.
"I'm not sure. I think I saw her just a while ago, talking to lady Nikos and- Oh! There she is." The knight replied humorously before pointing out the person in question.
The purple-haired girl had chosen to wear a sleeve-less black dress with golden bands around the waist and shoulders that clung slightly to her figure. She also had golden armbands around her wrists.
She was currently talking to the leaders of team RWBY and JNPR… Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc was it? After a short discussion Riina pointed towards the stairs, prompting the boy to leave his cup with the younger girl and head in that direction.
After a short bit of further conversation, the leader of team ROAL produced a red and silver device from somewhere, presenting it to the young team leader, along with what appeared to be some words of advice.
From where Omegos and Albion stood it was hard to discern the shape of the device, and for a short moment when Ruby received it it appeared to shine with a silver light…
Then their leader moved on, coming in their direction.
"Are you two still standing here?" She asked with false astonishment.
"What do you expect us to do? We can't dance." Omegos replied unhappily.
The purple-haired girl sighed deeply. "Then allow me a dance, and I'll show you, old friend." She said with a bemused shake of her head, as if the one before her was hopeless, while presenting her hand.
He grumbled and let himself be led onto the dancefloor.
"I'll be back for you afterwards Albion." Riina added before she started helping her partner with the noble art of dancing.
After several stumbles and a few incidents of stepping on toes, Omegos successfully danced with minimum faults, and his team-leader abandoned him to the sudden surge of young ladies seeking a dance now that he had already danced once, showing that he was capable, and nullifying the primary excuse with which he had avoided it, that he didn't dance.
Albion looked on with growing apprehension, puzzled slightly by their actions, but realizing that a similar fate might await him.
"Are you sure this is necessary…? I think I'm fine already…" He said apprehensively.
"Hmm…? What are you talking about Albion, you should be at least as capable as Omegos? This'll be a breeze for you, I'm certain." His leader said with a mischievous smile.
The knight sighed and resigned himself to his fate. In any other case he might have continued his attempts to escape, but considering who the other was, and the fact that his ability had been called upon, as a prideful knight he could hardly ignore this anymore.
Not in front of his leader.
-Break—
Finally.
Finally he was free from this horde of adolescent females.
Why were they so insistent at dancing with him anyway?
Omegos simply couldn't understand.
A bit off to the side he saw Albion disentangle from the crowd as well.
He quickly hurried to join up with him.
"Well Omegos. I think we can both agree that this has been an interesting experience, no?" The shaven boy said cheekily.
"I suppose that's one way to put it." The dual hair-coloured boy replied dryly. "Although I think I would rather use aggravating."
"Come now, it wasn't that bad." The knight retorted in good humour.
Then a small commotion drew their attention.
A large amount of giggling and subdued laughter could be heard as a person made his way through the crowd.
Finally, the person came into the duo's view, and immediately they became confused, for it was Jaune Arc, a male, wearing a dress, something they had been informed was female clothing.
He stopped before his team-mate Pyrrha, who turned around and became shocked from the unexpected sight.
Then she laughed slightly, and exclaimed; "Jaune, you didn't have too!" with clear amusement in her voice.
The boy took it in stride though, unaffected by the laughter of his team-mate, or the stares of those around him.
"Hey, an Arc never goes back on his word." The boy replied with uncharacteristic confidence, prompting some measure of approval from the duo. "Now, do you want to stand there and laugh at me, or do you want to dance?" He then asked, offering her his hand.
The red-haired girl laughed warmly.
"I, would love, to dance." She replied, taking his hand.
Jaune pulled her towards him, and before either Albion or Omegos could figure out what was happening they started up another type of dance, and were quickly joined by the rest of their team for a coordinated dance routine that shocked all the onlookers, and generated a lot of cheering as they displayed supreme skills in dancing.
"Such fine coordination. They are a tight-knit group. Lavender would approve." Omegos said approvingly.
"Speaking of which, where is he?" Albion asked and looked around.
"I don't know. Last I saw him he was up on the second floor." The warrior replied, even so scanning his surroundings.
"What about Riina, know where she went?" The knight then further queried.
"I don't know, you're the one who last saw him." The dual hair-coloured boy answered.
"She disappeared after abandoning me to the females." The shaven boy replied.
Suddenly something caught his attention, and he indicated with a small gesture for his ally to observe it as well.
Omegos' eyes turned towards the direction Albion had indicated, where he soon saw two men in an armoured uniform flanking a small girl with orange hair and a large pink ribbon wearing a simple green dress.
His eyes widened slightly.
"That girl…" He said in an astonished tone.
Omegos almost took a step towards her, but Albion's hand on his shoulder stopped him.
"Leave it. We'll discuss this with the others first. Acting incautiously might only serve to exuberate the situation." The knight said seriously.
Indeed, it was serious, for to that girl, who to those two were clearly not human, clung a small tendril of energy not of this world.
-Break—
Meanwhile, in the high rafters above the dance, BlackTailmon basked in the atmosphere surrounding the dance.
It didn't quite understand what was going on down there, or why these humans, and similar it quickly added, were performing these dances.
But the sheer amount of raw emotion that swirled around was fantastic, and these many of these people were filled with lust for some reason it didn't quite understand.
It almost wanted to take in this energy and ascend into at least its Perfect form from which it would be able to feast upon these people without them being able to do anything about it.
Yet it reminded itself that it had sensed Dukemon not long ago. The likelihood was high that the Royal Knight wouldn't be alone, and it doubted it had left the area.
It might not have been able to see any of them yet, but they were there, it was certain.
A mere Perfect might not be able to survive an encounter with Dukemon, much less so if any of the others are around.
But where are they hiding? They aren't that capable at it normally…
No… slow and steady wins the race. Patience would be key here.
As long as it remained undetected long enough to gather enough energy to regain its Ultimate form and keep it even in prolonged heated combat, everything would be fine.
Otherwise it might have to improvise, and it didn't like needing to improvise.
-Break—
Ruby had just seen off General Ironwood, and now stared at the device she had been handed by Riina of team ROAL.
It reminded her of a scroll, but bulkier, and with a number of buttons and it had a red and silver colour scheme.
She remembered what Riina had said as she gave it to her, claiming that it belonged to her.
'When you and your friends are in great danger, take your pure desire to protect them, and your strong will, and pour it into this device. Most certainly, it might save you, and many others.'
She still couldn't quite understand what she had meant, or how the device functioned, but for some reason she felt she could trust the other team-leader.
And as she put the device away she spotted a shadow moving over the rooftops, and decided to give chase, without telling anyone.
-Break—
Simultaneously, in another part of Remnant…
The dark beast gurgled as claws tore it apart, a tall humanoid figure standing tall amongst dispersing corpses as its three crimson eyes scanned the area.
"Not enough… These weaklings don't even serve as filler." It said in a dark voice, savage pride dyeing its tone.
It looked around, but a sudden twinge brought its eyes onto its arms where small disturbances, reminiscent of static, could be seen.
"This world does not sustain my form?" It asked itself, yet there was no worry in its voice.
Instead it smiled ferociously.
"You are saying they came to a world such as this?" It said with a wicked cackle. "Then I will persevere! I will not be inferior!"
More dark beasts came bursting from the darkness, massive creatures in the shape of bears, snakes and scorpions.
Yet this only served to emphasise the size of the three-eyed being, only the largest of the bear-like creatures standing taller than it.
It sneered. "Mindless beasts! I have no use for weaklings!" It exclaimed angrily and charged in, tearing apart one of the bear-like creatures with its claws before catching a lunging snake-head with its hands.
With a mighty roar it pulled, and the jaws came apart, shorn away by the sheer amount of force exerted upon them.
As the snake-like creature's partner head (oh, it had two heads) came in for revenge, the being simply responded by punching its snout… tearing the top of its head clean off.
In response a scorpion's stinger tried to plunge into the being, but it was intercepted by a clawed hand and stopped, the tail promptly grabbed, and with a mighty heave the scorpion-like creature was flung far, tearing the tail off in the process, while the collision with a cliff killed the beast.
In such a fashion this slaughter continued, with the beasts unable to harm the being as it tore them apart with viciousness and power they had never experienced before.
And when it was all over, no more beasts would approach, dismayed by the power of this being.
And into the field of dispersing corpses stepped a man, clad in a white coat and wearing a bowler hat.
"Oh my. What an intriguing coincidence." He said with a voice not his own.
In response to which the being sneered derisively.
"That voice… you're Barbamon, aren't you?" It replied unhappily.
Author's notes: And I'm back. I found it nice that someone managed to correctly guess all of the team ROAL members' true identities. And he even guessed one of the villains too! So yeah, that was nice. I hope to see a few reviews containing either feedback or other thoughts. Encouragement is also accepted.
I hope you enjoyed, and that you have a nice day.